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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by josteink on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:39PM (#11027941)
> What's the actual issue with iCloud?

I'll admit I haven't tried yet, but I'm going to hazard a guess that if I try to setup icloud on my Linux machines at home or my Android devices, I'm not going to get very far.

With Dropbox I get all the way, everywhere, with no hassles. Thus Dropbox has my business.

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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by tim333 on Thursday February 04, 2016 @01:28AM (#11032379)
> What's the actual issue with iCloud?

I'm not sure I can answer generally but from a personal point of view currently my notes are not syncing with my iPhone - God knows why - and last year when my iOS update f'kd up and I had to wipe the phone my iCloud backup wouldn't restore - some kind of corruption. Luckily there was a 3 month old iTunes backup on my disk so I didn't lose all data. So it's not perfect.

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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by overcast on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:43PM (#11027975)
That's like saying well I'm not going to get very far running a Playstation 4 game on my Super Nintendo. You can't count software that isn't even supported on a system. Yes, DropBox has a client for many systems, but saying DropBox is better because iCloud doesn't even exist on Linux make no sense.
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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by riq_ on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:52PM (#11028044)
> but saying DropBox is better because iCloud doesn't even exist on Linux make no sense.

makes sense for me. I don't use iCloud because of that. It doesn't have the features that I need. Although "Better" is subjective. Dropbox might not be better for you, but it "makes sense" for some people

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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by hartator on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:53PM (#11028049)
It's actually a good reason to pick DropBox over iCloud if you are running multiple OSes. So, it does make it better in a way.
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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by jhasse on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:54PM (#11028062)
Well it does make sense if he says Dropbox is just as good as iCloud on Mac and even supports other platforms. Thus it's better if you aren't only using Mac.
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